VA - Christmas Round The Jukebox: A Blues And R&B Christmas Celebration (2016)

Here is a Christmas celebration attended by some of the greatest names in R&B. From the late 40s to the early 50s the biggest names in Blues including B.B. King, Amos Milburn, Charles Brown, Jimmy Witherspoon, Lowell Fulton, Roy Milton, The Drifters, Joe Turner and Chuck Berry sing their Christmas favourites. Being the blues of course, many of the songs emphasise how lonely Christmas can be without the one you love whilst others celebrate the holiday season with joyful songs and new versions of standards like "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town". Many of these records constantly reappeared on the R&B sales every year. Some like Charles Brown's original million selling "Merry Christmas Baby" were still selling well into the soul era.

Track List:

1. Joe Turner - Christmas Date Boogie
2. The Five Keys - It's Christmas Time
3. Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run
4. The Drifters - White Christmas
5. Charles Brown - Please Come Home For Christmas
6. The Moonglows - Hey Santa Claus
7. The Cadillacs - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
8. Jimmy McCracklin - Christmas Time
9. The Ravens - White Christmas
10. The Ravens - Silent Night
11. The Falcons - Can This Be Christmas
12. Jimmy Liggins - I Want My Baby For Christmas
13. Mabel Scott - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
14. Charles Brown - Merry Christmas Baby
15. Lowell Fulson - Lonesome Christmas - Part 1
16. Lowell Fulson - Lonesome Christmas - Part 2
17. Johnny Moore's Three Blazers - Christmas Eve Baby
18. Cecil Grant - Hello Santa Claus
19. Jimmy Witherspoon - How I Hate To See Christmas Come Around
20. The Harmony Grits - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
21. Roy Milton - Christmas Time Blues
22. The Dominoes - Christmas In Heaven
23. Amos Milburn - Let's Make Christmas Merry Baby
24. Louis Jordan - May Every Day Be Christmas
25. The Orioles - (It's Gonna Be) Lonely Christmas
26. Big John Greer - We Want To See Santa Do The Mambo
27. B.B. King - Christmas Celebration